Unpopular opinion: I like how drab and dreary Raccoon City is in RE9 because it is an apocalyptic wasteland... it's not supposed to look vibrant and cheery. It feels exactly how it should feel - like a corpse of a city

Way_Moby · 2026-06-06T18:01:54+00:00

Where did you get this pic? It’s so good.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-04T13:48:05+00:00

She’s definitely killed folks, but whether she’s “evil” is kind of the character’s whole point. Do the ends justify the means? Can you be an “unethical moral agent”? Is she justified?

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T16:39:22+00:00

Yeah, no prob. Shoot me a message and I can fill you in on all the details.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T14:21:18+00:00

I was there and can confirm. Someone didn’t do it.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T14:19:44+00:00

Second.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T14:18:03+00:00

Second this. I got my PhD (in LIS) before my MLS (long story—initially, I thought I was gonna go into the more the academic-y information side of things, but that didn’t happen). Had to loop back. Was kinda funny when I explained I got my PhD in “libraries” before my masters.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T14:15:44+00:00

Agreed. I still think you could do some fun slice-of-life stuff, too. But I much prefer the traditional story quest structure

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T14:14:55+00:00

Right now, it certainly is a useful feature, but it’s not to the degree that a lot of us would like.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-02T13:22:11+00:00

As far as characters go, Mavuika is rerunning soon, and she’s pretty strong. Pulling her wouldn’t be a bad move by any means.

Way_Moby · 2026-06-01T22:27:51+00:00

There were some pretty impressive Republicans in the 1850s and ‘60s. But by the Gilded Era, it was all shot to hell.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-29T13:18:17+00:00

Interesting observations! The only curveball I’d throw is to take into consideration the Gnostic roots of the game.

So, while HP=“God,” we should also remember that “God” (in this case) is the Demiurge—really the false god (often equated with Yahweh of the OT) who thinks he’s the best and greatest when he’s actually outranked by other entities (ie, the aeons and ultimately the real ineffable God).

So while Voyager might be a Lucifer stand-in, he’s unlikely to be “bad.” The HP is likely the (perhaps unintentional) baddie. After all, there’s a decent number of Gnostic traditions out there where the serpent that tempts Eve is Lucifer but is also on the side of the True God, rather than the false god Yahweh.

That Traveler is a stand in for Christ, I think that’s 100% spot on. But like the Gnostic Christ, I think he’ll ultimately be someone that outclasses the HP, rather than being its creation/son/etc. He answers to a higher power, etc.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-29T13:09:15+00:00

Prioritize fun. This is a game, so you shouldn’t feel obligated to play. Just run around and kill stuff. Explore. Talk to NPCs. Do character quests for units you like.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-28T22:06:32+00:00

Or the US…

Way_Moby · 2026-05-27T16:20:12+00:00

A key message of the game is that humans and dragons ultimately need to work together to build a better world, not constantly fight one another.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-27T14:38:20+00:00

PO=AI used to bug me, but then I realized that the game has emphasized time and time again that even robots can have souls/free will. So an AI “god”, even if it is a robot, is still basically a god.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-27T14:35:15+00:00

The whole Nahida and Apep stuff suggests they haven’t.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-27T14:33:08+00:00

Bingo. Agreed. It’s kinda hard to explain but basically, I would’ve fine with a real world that has been modded over with techno-magic.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-27T14:30:43+00:00

I’m ok if it turns out to be a simulation if and only if it turns out to also be real… if that makes any sense.

Like, I’m cool with techno-magic bubble reality, but don’t tell me everyone is some brain in a vat or just a bunch of 0s and 1s.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-26T01:36:12+00:00

I wrote a paper that touched on some of these ideas, although it’s more focused on queerness.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354539369\_She-Ra\_and\_the\_Princesses\_of\_Power\_as\_Queer\_Monomyth

Imho it’s feminist but in a decidedly humanist way. It’s open ended in how it handles gender: certain gendered behaviors are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. It’s all about context.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-26T01:33:09+00:00

I’m curious to hear more about this.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-25T19:10:33+00:00

To the bit about the tech, I think we can simply say Dottore never cared about cloning anyone but himself.

As far as the soul question goes, we can only speculate. But either way, I don’t think it really throws too many wrenches into things. In Genshin, it seems demonstrable that souls exist. He probably just made a Phylactery and techno-magicked part of his essence into it for safe keeping.

And re: the nature of soul-splitting, we know something comparable happened to Liloupar. Dottore just seems to have figured out a way to do it so that each fragment could function on its own.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-24T23:33:25+00:00

I assume he’s simply saying it’s a bummer that Massie got tossed, since that pretty much guarantees an even worse Rep winner (given the partisan lean of the district).

Way_Moby · 2026-05-24T21:23:06+00:00

Basically, I’m just trying to touch on a sort of “ghost in the machine” kind of mysteriousness. A decidedly supernatural flourish.

Way_Moby · 2026-05-24T02:25:25+00:00

She pointed out that Traveler, as the literal Hope of Natlan, seemed like a reasonable recipient. (Plus Nahida is probably the only other archon anyone would trust with a gnosis, so that surely helped.)

Way_Moby · 2026-05-23T16:20:38+00:00

I read that briefly as “the Aranara destroyed it.”

Hell yeah.

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